Our Amazing Animals

Written by Jaimie O’Riley & Sascha Villiers

Photography by Sofia Toro & Jennifer Kefalas

We have got quite a lot of animals in our school. Lots of the other areas have animals, as well as the 3/4 area and also outside.

The first one are the chickens. They are the ones that live outside next to the playground. We feed them our compost but sometimes kids in the school feed them weeds. We haven’t named them yet but maybe we should.

In the 3/4 area there are the bearded dragons (actually they’re just lizards, not dragons!) Their names are Steampunk (the boy) and Naga (the girl). The 3/4 students get to feed them frozen vegetables and crickets. We also have been cleaning their bowls and their tank. Their tank has lots of rocks and logs and red sand, just like their natural habitat. The crickets eat carrots and apples and that makes them fat and juicy for the lizards!

We also have gold fish on our area. There are ten of them. We feed them gold fish flake food obviously! They don’t have any names because there are too many to name.

Finally there are the tropical fish which we have just got. We feed them tropical fish flake food. There are around about sixteen tropical fish. Some are tiger fish with big whiskers, there are two white shark fish and there are lots of colourful ones. One of the fish sucks the glass and the thermometer and keeps them clean.

We think that it is really great to have animals in our classrooms. They are really interesting to look at and they teach us about different types of animals.